The future of video on the web

July 24th, 2009

I’m getting rather excited about video media online. We’re on the cusp of a revolution in the way we produce and consume the medium.
I was working on a project recently which involved video content. It struck me that, although we have come on no end in terms of our ability to distribute video over the [...]

Author: chris Categories: Open Source, Publishing, Video Tags:

Semantic Web? What’s in it for me?

June 9th, 2009

There’s no doubt about it: the Semantic Web is the hottest thing in the on-line industry at the moment. It’s all over the web, on the speaker circuits, in multitudes of product labs. On-line publishers are being told again and again that they need to get there content into RDF triplets and create linked data. [...]

Author: chris Categories: Semantic web Tags: ,

Brand: the new pretender

May 21st, 2009

Content is king, is it? Well maybe. There’s no getting away from the fact that good quality content drives traffic. But in the struggling publishing industry, with waning advertising revenues, we might have to conclude that the current approach to web publishing is just not working.
That’s not to say there aren’t exceptions. Julian Sambles (@juliansambles), [...]

Author: chris Categories: News, Publishing Tags: ,

Open Source v traditional Software (ding, ding, ding)

May 10th, 2009

At the tail end of last month I spent two days attending talks at the yearly Internet World exhibition. I always enjoy listening to speakers and the quality was, by and large, very good. On the final day CMS Watch (@cmswatch) hosted a panel discussion in the Content Management theatre entitled: “Open Source v Traditional [...]

Author: chris Categories: CMS, Open Source Tags: ,

Creating compelling content in the Web 5.0 world

April 30th, 2009

Whoa, there. Web 5.0?
Okay, so I made up web 5.0. Actually, I detest the numbered generations we’ve applied to the web. The main problem I have with these terms is that they imply a linear progression. They suggest that we are going to abandon the interactive web, Web 2.0, for the semantic web, Web 3.0. [...]

Author: chris Categories: Semantic web, Social Media Tags: , , ,

How long is a (piece of) string?

April 24th, 2009

I recently posted an article about a workflow script I cooked up for automatically tweeting about an article when it gets published via Nstein’s WCM (here). Basically, the script to which the article referred was leveraging data from Nstein’s Text Mining Engine (TME) to create concise but still descriptive tweets. As a brief reminder of [...]

Author: chris Categories: CMS, Twitter Tags: , ,

Asimov’s 4th law: A robot will not tweet.

April 22nd, 2009

Well, that might be a bit extreme. At least if they do they should put in a bit more effort.
Perhaps I need to explain my problem here. The complaint I have concerns automatic tweets – popular with bloggers and online publshers in general. Extremely unpersonal, often unhelpful clipits drawing the audiences attention to a new [...]

Author: chris Categories: CMS, Twitter Tags: , , ,